Build Master, The: Microsoft’s Software Configuration Management Best Practices
by Vincent Maraia
Appendix D. Debug Symbols
Another topic that comes up all the time (and is the duty of the build team) is creating and maintaining symbols for various builds. Since this topic does not really fit into any of the chapters in this book, I thought I would include some notes and some of the best practices in this appendix.
A great place to start on debugging and symbols is at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/debugstart.mspx.
The best book concerning these areas is written by, arguably, the single best source on debugging and symbols, John Robbins: Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows.
I will give a brief overview of what symbols are, give an example of what Windows does to build them, and a short pointer on ...
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